{"id":614,"date":"2015-10-01T11:49:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210s29\/?p=21"},"modified":"2015-10-01T11:49:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:49:47","slug":"places-of-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/2015\/10\/01\/places-of-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Places of Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theses four places I have been have\u00a0profoundly influenced me for a myriad of\u00a0reasons. They have all contributed to my recent development.\u00a0A question that then needs to be asked is how and why did I decide to go to all of these places.<\/p>\n<p>Gstaad in Switzerland acts as a place I have been based off relationship. My Mum and Dad got divorced when I was young and my Dad moved to Switzerland when I was 10. My life became much more orientated around my mum\u2019s side of the family and naturally they helped construct an unfavorable view of Dad. When I was 18 I decided to see for myself and started visiting my Dad in Gstaad regularly. Being older and wiser I began to judge for myself and discount previous things I had thought. Now I visit twice a year and have a great relationship with my Dad.<\/p>\n<p>Lusaka in Zambia is where I was able to go due to an invitation from a lifelong friend I had been at boarding school with named Lutanga. Lutanga is half British and half Zambian. Throughout the years he had told me so much of Zambia and made me anxious to visit.<\/p>\n<p>Sanya, Hainan province, China, was a hugely contrasting place for me.\u00a0 On a whim spring freshman year I decided to apply to a program called CRCC Asia and was given a choice of Sanya, Beijing, Shenzhen or Shanghai. I decided to pick the place I knew the least about.<\/p>\n<p>Arusha in Tanzania represents a place I have been due to the University of Richmond. Freshman year I spent a lot of time socializing and I am proud of my eclectic friend group that arose from that. Benji invited some of us to Tanzania last summer but only two of us took him up on the offer!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads.knightlab.com\/storymapjs\/5c5f48f6024b5b8aa406caf4e87f55cf\/party-time\/draft.html\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theses four places I have been have\u00a0profoundly influenced me for a myriad of\u00a0reasons. They have all contributed to my recent development.\u00a0A question that then needs to be asked is how and why did I decide to go to all of these places.<br \/>\nGstaad in Swit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29790,32853,31563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2015","category-global-citizen-storymap","category-section-2","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}